Increase granularity of write operations in ReplicationMonitor thus reducing contention for
write lock
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Key: HDFS-2495
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2495
Project: Hadoop HDFS
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Tomasz Nykiel
Assignee: Tomasz Nykiel
For processing blocks in ReplicationMonitor (BlockManager.computeReplicationWork), we first
obtain a list of blocks to be replicated by calling chooseUnderReplicatedBlocks, and then
for each block which was found, we call computeReplicationWorkForBlock. The latter processes
a block in three stages, acquiring the writelock twice per call:
1. obtaining block related info (livenodes, srcnode, etc.) under lock
2. choosing target for replication
3. scheduling replication (under lock)
We would like to change this behaviour and decrease contention for the write lock, by batching
blocks and executing 1,2,3, for sets of blocks, rather than for each one separately. This
would decrease the number of writeLock to 2, from 2*numberofblocks.
Also, the info level logging can be pushed outside the writelock.
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